Chapter 960: Rich and Rival Country
Just when Qian Fenglin and Zuo Maodi reached an agreement, Wang Yin arrived at the waters of Quanzhou with his fleet, which was only a few dozen miles away from the Zheng family's old nest Jinxia. It was also here that Zheng Zhilong's messenger sent to Nanjing by sea was intercepted.
Looking at the content of the secret letter, Wang Yin's face changed slightly, he didn't expect the matter to be revealed so quickly. But this is nothing, even if Zheng Zhilong's secret letter is sent to the imperial court, it is only a one-sided statement, the king of Qi has hundreds of thousands of male soldiers in the north, even the imperial court is Chongzhen, and he does not dare to accuse the king of Qi openly.
And in a few days, the power of the Zheng family will disappear, for a dead Zheng Zhilong and the king of Qi who is in the sky, no one will be so stupid!
The huge fleet entered the territory of Quanzhou, and soon attracted the attention of the Quanzhou naval division, and soon a ship came up to ask about the fleet's intention.
"We were ordered to support Quanzhou and kill the rebels. The southeast governor is also on the ship, and the local sailors must obey the dispatch! The chief soldier Lu Tai came forward to meet and told the officials and people in Quanzhou.
Because of the blockade of the news, Zuo Maodi succeeded Wang Yin as the governor of the southeast has not yet reached Quanzhou, hearing that the southeast governor personally led the fleet to rescue, the officials and people along the coast of Quanzhou wept with joy, and reported to Lu Tai the news that Quanzhou was lost, and Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, led the main force to retreat to Anping. It is said that the traitors are attacking the city urgently, and Anping is already in danger.
"The herald continues to move forward, go straight to Jinmen, and completely take over the Zheng family's water division!" Wang Yin was in high spirits and hurriedly gave an order.
Anping fell, the Zheng family was defeated, it was a good time to take over its power, Wang Yin has the identity of the southeast governor, and has the right to dispatch and command all the troops in the southeast, and those who refuse to obey the order can be disposed of justifiably.
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And at this time, Anping has indeed reached the most dangerous time. Zheng Zhilong thought that he would use the tall walls of Anping to kill the rebels, and the abacus would be declared bankrupt before it started.
The rebels did use the ant-attached method of attacking the city, but they used extremely powerful grenades. Before Zheng Zhilong's defensive means such as fire oil could come in handy, a grenade tied with a rope was thrown onto the city, sending out a series of explosions. The whole city exploded, the iron pots on the city walls were blown over, the boiling oil was splashed, and the defenders were burned with terrible screams.
Zheng Zhilong was standing at the head of the city to supervise the battle, when a grenade happened to be thrown up from below and fell at his feet. When Zheng Zhilong was stunned, the grenade exploded, and several shrapnel spun and flew out, breaking through the leather armor on his body and deeply embedded in his body.
Seeing Zheng Zhilong fall to the ground without a word, the surrounding guards who were not bombed were shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to surround Zheng Zhilong, and saw that Yin Hong's blood could not stop flowing from Zheng Zhilong's body.
"Call the Medic!" One of the guards hissed.
"What is the name of the doctor, the rebels have been killed, quickly escape from the city with the general!" Another guard shouted.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the explosion at the head of the city, the rebels have climbed up the ladder to the top of the city. The soldiers at the head of the city were blown apart, and there was no way to stop them. The strong city defense, the complete defense, was broken through by the rebels in this way.
The series of explosions, coupled with the fact that the main will be bombed and the life and death of the main bomber, the defenders at the head of the city can only fight on their own, and they cannot make a strong defense.
Seeing that the rebels attacked the city, Zheng Zhilong was unconscious again, and his guards did not dare to stay in the city for a long time, so they fled to the city with Zheng Zhilong.
As soon as the main general fled, Ren Shifu and Zheng Lian and other generals coerced and lured again, and the defenders on the city were unable to resist the siege of the rebels.
The rebels quickly gained a foothold at the top of the city, then organized their forces to kill the city, the gates opened, and more rebels swarmed in.
Zheng Zhilong was seriously injured and in danger, and his personal guards could only escort him to the seaside pier. Although there were still more than 10,000 troops in Anping City, they fell into a state of fighting on their own, and they could not form a strong resistance at all.
Chen Mo commanded a large army to attack the city, deployed troops to clear the remnants of the enemy according to the region, and at the same time sent troops to capture Zheng Zhilong's house and the treasury in the city to protect material wealth.
Because the defeat was too fast, most of the soldiers of the Zheng family army did not have time to escape and were trapped in the city, some of the soldiers surrendered under the attack of the rebels, and most of them fled into civilian houses, which brought great difficulties to the cleanup.
It was slowly getting dark, and the large-scale fighting had stopped. The rebels completely captured the city defenses and firmly controlled the city of Anping. Only a small part of Zheng's army escaped through another city gate to the seaside pier and boarded the warships anchored in the bay. Chen Mo did not have a sailor in his hands, and he could only sigh at the fleeing enemy.
After breaking Anping and the Zheng family's foundation on land was completely destroyed, Chen Mo knew that Wang Yin had led the fleet to Quanzhou, and the next thing would depend on Wang Yin.
Zheng Zhilong's injuries were unexpected, and Anping City was lost too quickly, so that except for Zheng Zhilong's family members who fled to the sea, most of the people and property did not have time to evacuate.
In the next few days, Chen Mo did nothing else, but counted the seized property under the command. Anping is the nest of the Zheng family, most of the wealth accumulated by Zheng Zhilong for more than ten years is here, the silver in the treasury is piled up, and all kinds of material food are innumerable.
The clerks in the army are taking inventory of the contents of the various warehouses, and the officers and men of the Suppression Division are fully armed to patrol all parts of the city to prevent looting, and the army will reward them according to their merits, and it is absolutely forbidden to hide their belongings.
Chen Mo was also patrolling the warehouses in the city, and he was shocked by what he saw in his eyes. What he saw in the Zheng family's inner house alone dazzled his eyes, and in the silver vault, boxes of silver ingots shimmered in the candlelight, and each box of silver ingots amounted to five thousand taels of silver, and there were as many as five or six hundred such boxes.
There is a slightly smaller warehouse, but when it is opened, it is filled with something more valuable than silver, dozens of boxes of gold ingots, more than ten boxes of pearls, and a large number of jade agate, what shocked Chen Mo the most was a coral tree, a coral tree more than five feet high, shining magnificently in the candlelight.
The gold and silver and other riches in Zheng Zhilong's inner house alone are roughly estimated to be as much as tens of millions of taels of silver, not to mention the grain, cloth, raw silk, gunpowder, armor, bows and arrows, knives and guns and other materials piled up in the warehouses in the city!
The wealth of the Zheng family is a real rich country! No, the wealth of the Zheng family far exceeds that of the Ming treasury, and it is not at all comparable to the Ming treasury that the treasury can run!
Seeing these riches, Chen Mo understood why Qian Fenglin secretly ordered him to attack the primary target of Anping.
With this huge amount of wealth, there is enough financial resources to do anything, and how much help is it to the great cause of the king of Qi!